Literary classics that would be perfect for your Atari, Neo Geo, or whatever the kids are using to Donkey Kong on these days.

• The diary that inspired Faulkner.

• Justin Taylor picks out songs for Largehearted Boy.

• Kierkegaard gets the English treatment.

• Don DeLillo’s newest book, Point Omega, is reviewed.

• Salinger got some gin up his schnoz

• Marisa Meltzer talks riot grrrls at Slate.

• Balzac, Anna Karenina, and Susan Boyle, together at last.